> AFAIK no one has built a modern floating point accelerator using opamps and A/D and D/A converters, This is one of the smartest things i've read on HN. I gue

> AFAIK no one has built a modern floating point accelerator using opamps and A/D and D/A converters, This is one of the smartest things i've read on HN. I guess you are correct. Although who knows, perhaps a differential equation solver could be faster using D/A -> analog computer -> A/D?